I won’t walk it, but I’ll drive it. I often think in song lyrics, so you’ll have to learn to tolerate that about me. Or not, I guess. I mean, you could just click off of here. But I hope you’ll stick around despite my goofiness.
This family trip will take several posts. There were several first-times for several of us, our fair share of hiccups, many places we’ve each vowed that we must return for longer, and it’s one of the longest trips we’ve taken in a relatively short amount of time. 5,000+ miles in just under 14 days. We also have each discovered travel preferences, what worked and some definite “what not to dos” along the way. There were some exciting moments, some very sad moments, a lot of beauty, and some frustrations. But we each learned a lot.
Two weeks before Thanksgiving, we received a call from our Army son that he needed to be in “ready status” to deploy. We quickly firmed up some loosely organized Thanksgiving plans to go visit. Just a day or two after that, we received word that my husband’s Uncle Billy was not doing well, and was hospitalized. We started looking at flights for my husband to go visit his New Hampshire family, then go directly on to Virginia and we would meet him there for Thanksgiving. Perhaps taking a day during that time to go back to New Hampshire to introduce the rest of the family to our youngest and our Army boy and his family, whom they had never met.
Then we received the dreaded call that Uncle Billy had passed. His funeral was set for the Friday before Thanksgiving. Just before we were scheduled to leave to go to Virginia. We quickly put together a plan to leave a few days early, and drive to New Hampshire before our trip to Virginia. GPS showed the trip would be approximately 28 hours. We left on Wednesday, the 13th of November, 2023 with the intent that between 4 drivers, we would drive straight through. We arrived somewhere around 30 hours later, which all things considered (we did stop to eat, gas up several times, and to see Niagara Falls), was not bad at all. But we were exhausted.
Trip summary:
5038.5 miles
Summary: We traveled through – including our home state of Texas – 18 states (some multiple times, in different areas), and Washington, D.C.
More to come about the trip…
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